Word: companion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This is my problem. I'm the mother, sister, companion, nursemaid, sparring partner and wife of a jazz clarinet. Should I continue to live with this sink of iniquity and listen to his lousy rendition of Baby, Won't You Please etc. or should I divorce him, marry a shoe salesman or magazine writer, and listen to Sweet Adeline...
...first clear proof of the existence of a planet outside the solar system has now been accepted by astronomers. The proof consists of the mathematical evidence of the presence of a dark companion revolving around one of the stars in Cygnus (the Swan). The presence of this body was first reported last autumn by Swarthmore's Astronomer K. Aa. Strand...
...stars deviated from the expected path in regular "oscillations" which could be explained only by the gravitational pull of a third body on them (as the Earth's orbit around the Sun is affected by the Moon). By measuring these deviations, he determined that their unseen companion was a body with about 16 times the mass of Jupiter (largest solar planet), that it revolved around one of the stars in a cycle of 4.9 years. Prodded by Strand's finding, astronomers soon located dark companions of other stars...
...companion events Eusign John M. MacFarland of the Navy Supply Corps School here won the service men's 880 yard obstacle race. Carrying a 60 pound pack and full battle regalia, MacFarland outdistanced his nearest opponents by 20 yards...
...Companion volumes by the same authors list Tibetan syllables according to phonetic values (English alphabetical order), Tibetan verbs, commonplace chater for travelers. But Gould & Richardson lope that their students, will not be unmoved by Tibetan's poetic quality, claim hat the language challenges Chinese in its imagery. The name, for example, of one of he most glorious Himalayan pinnacles, Canchenjanga, third highest in the world, means "The Five Storehouses of the Great Snow...